The United States said earlier this month that it would introduce a UN Security Council resolution authorising Kenya to lead a multinational police force to fight gangs in Haiti.
A human rights group on Monday urged the international community to quickly intervene to end spiralling violence by gangs in Haiti as it detailed the brutal rapes and killings committed in the troubled nation's capital.
The call by Human Rights Watch comes as Haiti awaits a response from the UN Security Council to its request in October for the immediate deployment of an international armed force to fight the surge in violence.
Ida Sawyer, the group's crisis and conflict director, says if an intervention does not come quickly, more people will be killed, raped and kidnapped, and more will go without food. Ms Sawyer recently visited Haiti to compile a report on the violence.
The United States said earlier this month that it would introduce a UN Security Council resolution authorising Kenya to lead a multinational police force to fight gangs in Haiti. But no timetable for such a resolution was given.
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